agree with you because russia is not responsible for iraq russia is no the sponsible for libya russia is not responsible for syria how can you claim that the world is a better place because of the united states when you have three brutal conflicts that have killed hundreds of thousands of people displaced millions and you can still say that the united states made the world a better place how come i can say it without reservation the united states has also turned europe from a place that had multiple great power wars into a place where you have democracies aligned nato aligned with the united states you have peace. stability freedom economic prosperity and russia's trying to undermine that you know ask countries on russia's border ukraine georgia do they want to be part of russia or do they want to be part of the west and the answer's clear russia has to go to war to prevent those countries from making sovereign decisions about where they'll be aligned but they would prefer to be part of the west part of the e.u. and part of nato because because of what the united states represents and

it's simply what russia does. remember, russia is a country that has a gdp less than 10% of american gdp. gdp is smaller than texas, new york, two-thirds the size of italy. smaller than the combined gdp of the combined in orderic countries. they have to find ways to obtain strategic advantage that doesn't depend on marshaling vast resources and what they call active measure campaigns. it's one of the ways that russia, whether in the soviet ra or the putin era has attempted to achieve the opinion by molding western opinion. >> why don't we open it up to the floor. since this is about modernization, i'll throw it to andrew to get us started. >> you obviously illustrated in your speech and made reference also to army leadership comments about the army being outranged j outgunned in europe, and increasingly so. your senate armed services committee mark and airland piece went after this, did increased modernization for the army. my question is, because there's so many things that you can increase or seek to accelerate

it is what russia does. remember, russia is a country that now has a gdp of barely less than 10% of american gdp. it's smaller than the size of california, texas, new york, smaller than italy. two thirds the size of italy. it's smaller than the combined nordicthe five countries. they have to find ways to achieve strategic advantage that is not going to depend on marshaling vast resources. it's what they call active measure campaigns are what we call covert influence is one of the ways russia long attempted to achieve that advantage by molding western opinion and dividing nato countries between themselves. >> while we open it up to the floor. we will start with andrew to get us started. for other folks, just wait for the microphone and identify yourself and keep it in the form of a question. >> thank you for those remarks. you obviously illustrated in your speech and made reference to army leadership comments about the army being out ranged, and outgunned in europe and increasingly so. the senate armed servic

and russia destined to be enemies. talking russia u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest peter cosmic in washington he's a professor of history and director at american university as well as co-author with all over stone the untold history of the united states in pittsburgh we. he is an adjunct professor of law at university of pittsburgh as well as author of the plot to scapegoat russia and here in moscow we crossed alexander me curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander but before i think go to you first ok we can talk about russia gate we can we can talk about collusion you know i want to stay away from what i essentially believe is a fake story here but one thing that is never mentioned in the mainstream media that i'm aware of anyway is is what does russia want in its relationship with the united states we always are told what the u.s. demands of everyone else but what

the perceptive reception is that we should put sanctions we should punish russia for all the russia's transgressions and bad dealings in the world did you ever hear anybody on the mainstream media calling for the world to have sanctions against the united states when the united states invades iraq to everybody the maze free media call for the world to have sanctions against the united states to punish the united states for its overthrow of the government of libya and the creation of chaos throughout the world we suffer from what we call american exceptionalism we apply a very different standard to the united states when the united states screws up around the world our motives are always pure but somehow we made a mistake but we're innocent but we have a very very different standard and that's that corrosive environment that we live in in the united states where we judge ourselves by completely different stand then we judge everybody else and unless we begin to get past that we can understand how the world looks to anybody else from the standpoint of the rest of the world russia might

>> i think it was russia. it could have been other people and other countries. >> set for 45 minutes from now the two are finally face-to-face. >> i respect putin. he's a strong leader, i can tell you that. i think i'd get along very well with vladimir putin. >> kind words turn into tough talk while outside the summit, protesters are ramping up for another day of chaos. the first lady trapped in her residence. our reporter right there in the middle of it all. >> there are now clashings between protesters and police. >> president trump meeting with world leaders right thousand were a closed session at the g-20 summit with members taking this photo a short time ago in hamburg. but it is the meeting between president trump and vladimir putin that all of us are waiting for. we have the best team in the business on what to expect and really what's at stake. nbc's norah o'donnell is live at the g-20 in germany now. kelly, there is certainly a lot going on. got the handshake between president trump and vladimir putin

is russia allctually our ally?20 summit has another day to go, another day of demonstrations on the streets and high-level meetings in well-guarded rooms. but everyone here knows that the main event is now over. so that does it for us from hamburg tonight. rachel will be back on monday, and i will see you again next friday live from iraq where we will take you to the front lines for the final push to drive isis out of the city of mosul. now it's time for "the last word." ari melber is in for lawrence tonight. good evening, ari. >> good evening, richard. thank you for all that reporting. but you go, i do want to ask you given everything, do you think putin got what he wanted out of president trump today? >> i think he absolutely got what he wanted. i think he came in with this intention to have a long meeting. i think he wanted to overwhelm the president, presenting him lots of options, lots of things they could discuss, put some mate

last month there was a kind of more pragmatic attitude towards russia. this from side of the german and who is different the decision maker in your opinion. and maybe maybe you are right partly that now. why didn't you tell was russia slightly change what you know we're kind of split. in this russian terms for we have baltic states with poland with of. the countries who are kind of more recent phobic let me say and there is no common position still was speaking about this only just before a meeting with putin trump is expected to make a stop in poland who's relations with brussels and the old europe are far from smooth even those tensions continue to grow and it looks like they will continue to grow who do you think the baltic states will find themselves closer to is a burden in brussels or warsaw. really. i cannot answer this question i hope that we are able to be more constructive. to the previous experience i would say that we will be closer to to washoe unfortunately i personally i am i'm the first that i'm russian speaker doesn't matter but we were

against russia, against iran. i want to thank the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee from new york for his determined and excellent work on this legislation. regimes in dit parts of the world are threatening vital u.s. interests, and they are destabilizing their neighbors. it is well past time that we force fully respond -- forcefully respond. under putin, russia has invaded its neighbor, ukraine, seizing its territory and destabilizing its government. it poses a threat to our nato allies in europe as moscow works to undermine democratic values with determination and sophistication. as u.s. intelligence agencies have made clear, this former kgb colonel attempted toint fear with our own election. left unchecked, russia is sure o continue its aggression. putin's forces continue to prop up the murderous assad regime in syria, prolonging a deadly, deadly conflict that has driven tens of millions of people from their homes while enabling the chemical s shall -- weapons and other systematic human rights abu

russia has faced sanctions that are actually increasing not decreasing in the case of syria yes russia has increased its geo political influence in a limited way because it now has a strong ally in the assad but in the wider world when russia is backing a country that uses chemical weapons against its own people when russian and syrian aircraft are bombing hospitals is this a win for russia in the court of world opinion i don't think so but. i don't want to get into the issues but then i could turn the table in here and say is it a win for the united states to continue sponsor jihadi groups as it's been doing throughout the middle east and there's the matter of fact is that you cannot accuse me of making a fake news because you know that the united states in even under the obama administration was supporting groups. it doesn't feel like maybe that support was limited nonetheless that's jihadi groups are you referring to and number of them for example in syria there are a number of as a former reporter in syria i know that there have been and number of groups that either the united stat

sometimes the ideological russia do in the work hand in glove and by ideological russia i mean the project to essentially make russia a great again to bring it back up off of its means to restore it to what it believes to be its rightful place as a world power. sometimes corruption and ideology go hand in hand but at other times they are in tension with each other and operate at cross purposes. closely related is the weaponization of the russia organized crime which is also used as a tool of statecraft. but just as it is incorrect to classify russia, it's also incorrect to classify it as a mafia state as many do. more accurately, as my friend and colleague wrote in a recent report on the council for foreign relations, russia is a state with a nationalized mafia. the securities upgrade closely with organized crime and often precipitating their activities as the result of security services they are able to establish the so-called black account which has untraceable cash that can be used for all sorts of off the books operations and influence operations abroad and i could go into a little mor

one major joint project with russia nor in stream to pipeline is aimed to bring russia gas from russia to europe to the baltic sea firms from germany austria france and the netherlands agreed to pay half of the cost of the pipeline and invest almost five billion euros into the project the list of companies that fear being affected include some of the world's biggest players in the industry here's some of them including england at shell french company n g the u.k.'s b p n germany's that winter shall and head of winter shell has declared that these sanctions shouldn't be used to push someone's economic interests referring to the us promoting it liquid natural gas r.t.s. peter oliver has more from the european reaction well it's the potential of the sun sions could have both the the business and energy sectors here in europe that has e.u. officials hostile to the cola there are potentially huge fines for businesses that would enter into energy projects with russia many of those blue chip european companies of course all heavily involved that we've heard from the german forward ministry is

moreover, the lack of these missiles in russia's arsenal deprives russia of a potent tool to gain leverage in its near bride, as it always seeks to do. vladimir putin has resolved this ambivalence in a simple way -- cheating on the inf treaty. by state department accounts, russia has been testing a new cruise missile that can strike western europe since at least 2008, at least nine years. in fact, the obama administration repeatedly warned the kremlin to cease and desist. the state department formally declared russia in violation of the treaty in 2014 and every year thereafter. yet, they never followed up in any meaningful way. so it's no surprise that according to media reports, russia has deployed two battalions of road mobile intermediate range cruise missiles. vladimir putin is therefore eating his cake and getting to have it, too. russia remains secure in the european theater by the absence of u.s. cruise missiles, while putin has developed a new missile that counteracts china, threatens the small countries on his periphery, and divides nato politically. the truth is though, this is n

russia relationship is very important. and we need to make it better there's no question about it we need to cooperate on so many issues on nuclear weapons from syria on iran on energy on trade. and he's still exist. ricos treated as one. point three cool. and i knew a lot of. the island is controlled by the us government and some puerto rican screwed even dependence. the there was. still many do wish to join the us. hundreds more leave every day we went to sleep thinking families i mean you. beings that want to live with the country at a crossroads angora the island is on the rise. welcome back to worlds apart with yana tom and as tony a member of the european parliament. mr i mentioned serial radio and i know that your recent visit to this country and your meeting with president assad was have only criticized in both estonian and european media i wonder though if privately in your private conversations. experts and politicians express the same kind of attitude because from my own interviews with the europeans i get a sen

russia russia until the midterm elections you know these are the people the benefit from all of this and then we have the deep state has been. mentioned before they will drip out all of these leaks here to make sure that any kind of move to better relations will be impossible in the legislation is it remarkably is that if trump actually wants to do some kind of improvement with russia he has to go to specific congressional committees for permission to move forward he's handcuffed and everybody in the elite is quite satisfied with that go ahead midge. a big part of the problem is neither the. republican old guard or the entire democratic party wanted the apple cart to be toppled by donald trump coming in and trying to drain the swamp. which is really important for democracy in america so what's the alternative now they're looking for an alternative i mean you've got a weaponized media all targeting donald trump every channel if you click between the different cable programs everybody has. now the american people poll from one of the major pollsters in america came out saying less than

who immigrated to russia i'm the. new energy surge and we're going to be any cold war since probably since august of two thousand and eight possibly as early as back as two thousand and three two thousand and five with the color revolutions that failed in ukraine and georgia but i prefer to think of it not as an ideological struggle left. to democracy capitalism but as a great power conflict hold on one that we're going to go to a short break and after our short break we'll continue our discussion on new sanctions stay with r.t. . make it is that he's if a seed or a seed you'll see. so if you have this is just going to come. and this is not going to be but. it's a big. economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six points. but what do we know about the other figures. well. think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. with all due respect i have to say i don'

why do you think trump supports russia's so much -- russia so much? host: let's give her a chance to respond. guest: the dossier -- i should point out a lot of the information has not been verified. we do have to be careful how much of that we take as real and how much not. i think the question of why president trump seems to want a better relationship with russia is one most of us cannot answer. at the end of the day having better relations with russia is something that all of us should want, but at the same time the united states cannot sacrifice our values and principles in the pursuit of that relationship. i think what the administration has been finding out, like many administrations previously, is that it is fraud and difficult and the russians are not reliable partners so we have to find other ways for the things to get done without relying on shem as an ally in our attempt and desire to keep america safe. host: alina polyakova of the atlantic council, think you for joining us today. you can find more at atlanticcouncil.org. you can find her on

the new russia sanctions bill passed by the u.s. house of representatives could damage europe's and its interests. islamic state find those returning to europe leaving the authorities struggling for a way to deal with the. operation exposes how the pentagon gave away more than a million dollars worth of military equipment to agents posing as policemen. given and we'll have you next in line from hay almost studio until then it's crosstalk stay with us. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the republican controlled congress can't unite around trump's legislative agenda but with democrats there in unison when it comes to punishing russia for alleged meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election russia will brush off new sanctions as it did three years ago but the europeans won't. cross talking the sanctioning of russia i'm joined by my guest mitch firesign in new york he is a fund manager and author of the book planet ponzi in charlottesville we have david swanson he is director of world bey

russia is not backing off. russia wants to stay in syria.y want that toe hold in the middle east and iran also. influencing the militia movements there. again, you know, the whole question of whether you can defeat isis in syria, you can defeat them where they stand on the ground. you can kill them off. exactly where they stand. do you defeat the movement? and do you actually have raqqah come back under civilian control for the ben put tefit of the pe who live there. how soon until russia continues to exert its influence? if russia comes back with assad, into areas like raqqah, into the euphrates river valley, if they expand their sphere of influence, how long before the u.s.-backed forces. the syrian democratic forces, the kurds, the arabs, that the u.s. has been trying to train to fought and have been making progress against isis. how long before those forces are pushed to the background or even worse? >> we're watching mosul even closer, given that it is believe that a retake in mosul is imminent. you reported a lot bout, barbara, is wha

it's russia russia russia and we just as a point about russia that it's a very influential country on the world stage and people notice what russia does it's a powerful country there's no denying that and the mood music politically in russia is homophobic there is no two ways about but you have you ever been to russia i don't need to go to iraq and i certainly have musical ideas i look at how ok there is a there is not. we who are relying on mainstream media reports but also. for giving a country that has introduced a new piece of legislation saying you cannot talk about being gay because it will turn out ok this is what it's about exactly this policy that it's going to section twenty eight margaret thatcher brought in the same kind of similar law where you couldn't promote a homosexual lifestyle situ order it was in law until two thousand and three and people seem to forget only did few years ago we had exactly the same law which was a backward step to move forward. and say that we have actually pictures of the march against section twenty eight there. which is what was put in quick

interest against russia. second, the myth that nato deterrence is at risk because of the united states, not europe. talk is cheap. deterrence is about the military balance of power not magic words. national leaders can call article five any pretty word they want, but europe's collective failure to meet the 2% goal of defense spending has under invested in our common defense by something on the magnitude of 100 - $120 billion per year. vladimir putin can see the reality of what national leaders in europe think about the defense the matter what years they use. it is well-known that russia's is within the range of the treaty and european leaders continue to resist the efforts to bring russia into compliance with those treaties. doctor, as you noted the german foreign minister has protested that pass the senate 97 to two because germany does business with russian communities. which they shouldn't be building in the first place if there that worried about russia want to determine deter them in your. and the 2% goa

the truth is this is nothing new for russia. weather in the soviet era or the vladimir putin era, the russians take a hard eye view of the treaties they signed, do the treaties serve their interests, if it does they abide by it. if it doesn't they don't. the soviets signed the anti-ballistic missile treaty in 1972 for instance because it served their interests. us technology was more advanced, if we developed an effective missile defense system their nuclear deterrent wouldn't deter that much. that didn't stop the russians from pushing their luck. for years they maintained a large phased array radar that plainly violated the treaty. the us protested until the soviet union finally agreed to dismantle that radar. seven years after we first detected it. from their perspective, the treaty and its violation was a bargaining chip. to the russians, any treaty is just another point of leverage especially against nato. i would suggest it is time we look at inf treaty the same way. beyond our current commitments we should ask ourselves wh

i have no loans in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. >> and undermining and even ending the careers of top presidential advisors. >> the president was very concerned that general flynn had misled the vice president and others. >> the president's first national security advisor, michael flynn, lied for lying about conversations with russia. >> you don't want your national security advisor compromised with the russians. >> i have recused myself in the matters. >> forced to recuse himself for not disclosing his own contacts with russian officials. >> i don't think anybody knows it was russia. >> and trump himmism is repeatedly questioning the intelligence community's high confidence judgment that russia interfered with the election that brought him to the oval office. >> could also be china, could also be lots of other people. could also be someone laying on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. okay. >> and mr. trump firing his fbi director. >> i was going to fire comey. my decision. >> over a russia investig

president vladimir putin, president trump publicly called out russia. >> we urge russia to cease it'sivities in ukraine and elsewhere, and it's support for hostile regimes, including syria and iran. >> reporter: he cast doubt on u.s. intelligence assessments putin was behind the meddling in the 2016 election. >> i think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and/or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. putin is showing he the man planning on mags things easy for trump. praising the success of a g dos 20 in a newspaper, but slamming u.s. trade policies as protectism. u.s. sanctions as doomed to fail. he also voiced support for the paris climate accord which trump pulled out of, calling it quote, a reliable international framework. behind the scenes, his top aids, secretary of state rex tillerson, defense secretary jim mattis, and fiona hill, putin critic now on the national security council are prepping him for tomorrow's sit-down with putin. it's the most anticipated of his nine meetings on the sidelines of the g20 summit. the pre

russia maybe the u.s. . the u.s. then its way and i probably in the states on the united states all you know well and how do you feel about that i faked that our trade policies under the present current administration has got a right i can't believe it could be president that you're trying to protect themselves with trouble being president you've got to expect a lot of crazy things not good but we have to stand out it's not good for us and it's not good for the world we think that we can exist by ourselves we can the world is a much bigger place now with becoming less and less important it's a trade war a trade war between us and the jar and the germans us and the rest of the world it saves a lot of people i think voted for mr trump. because he was hoping not to keep our continual adventures in foreign countries to reduce the wars and what we're having here is just we're creating more of a worse situation in were and we're needing our european partners as well and we're basically we've got a congress imposing their o

. >> winston churchill, famously in russia. it is a mystery. prime minister churchill meets vladimir putin. >> he's very much of a leader. he's been a leader far more than our president has been a leader. >> he does not have a soul. >> vladimir putin is a thug and a murder and a killer. >> he's the richest man in the world. hundreds of millions of dollars corrupted. >> what does he want from donald trump? >> putin is going to eat him like a sandwich. >> he rather has a puppet as a president. >> how powerful is he? >> putin has an trample authority. so powerful he rigged the america's election? he didispice hillary clinton. america asks, what does he want? is he really the most powerful man in the world? december 5th, 1989, it was a cold night in dresden, east germany. it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just formed. all over east germany, angry crowds roamed the streets and lashing out symbols of communist rules. that night in dresden, they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the bui

better russia. that's my view. being a -- lithuania being a neighbor of russia may have a more jaundiced view of russian history, but remember the current era reminds me more than any other period of the early 1980s. when russia was hostile to the west everyone in europe was worried about the outbreak of war. and russians were beginning to whisper to americans in the soviet union. i was one of them. things cannot go on like that. reagan administration's approach to russia had two periods. pressure before gorbachev and when the russians turned inward having failed to intimidate the west, reagan abandoned his more rigid cohort and reached out to gorbachev. and it may be that one of these years a russian attempted internal reform will in fact succeed. so rather than end on a note of toughness and hitting back with the russians i want to talk about at least the potential of a better future. that time will come, though it's not today. >> thank you very much, ambassador freed. you know, great talk. let me

that's simply what russia does. russia is a country that now have a dvd barely less-than-perfect 10 percent of america's. the ddd falls on the site california, and in new york. smaller than italy. >> smaller than the combined gdp of the five nordic countries, they have to find ways to achieve an advantage that is not based on marshaling bath resources and what they call active measure campaigns, what we would call propaganda or covert influences one of the way russia is weathering the soviet era to achieve that advantage by holding western opinion and dividing nato countries. >> what we open up to the floor and thank you since this is not our injuries yet she started. >>. >> for the folks, just wait for the microphone and identify yourself and ask it in the form of a question. >> thank you for those remarks and you obviously illustrated in your speech and made reference also to our leadership comments about the army being arranged, outgunned in europe and increasingly so >> . >> of your senate armed services committ

russia meddled in the american election russia hack the american election there are investigations going on now we have the public hasn't been given any kind of proof but the u.s. government in congress has already made its drawn its conclusions when we have no conclusions whatsoever i mean that this is the folly of all of this here you again act before you know what the what the facts are on the ground and they're not interested in facts because none of them have really been produced the socks out from under my bed. but the bottom line is all of these accusations there is no evidence presented there can't even be any evidence because neither the f.b.i. the n.s.a. the cia the office the office of the director of national intelligence no one actually looked at the purported scene of the crime that democratic national committee servers where e-mails were supposedly hacked by russia. wiki leaks says they got them from a whistleblower and then these emails exposed to the d.n.c. and the hillary can come main colluded to. break their own primary to have hillary clinton elected and that is what

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>> russia as a state, of course not. russia as a state.t say anything about each of 145 million people. that is not possible. >> now we're seeing a tightening of the sanctions. do you think he will approve or veto them? >> i think he's not so powerful, not like previous presidents of the united states. >> you see president trump as a victim surrounded by hostile forces? >> i can tell you that for me, that's my personal vision. >> what if he vetoes the sanctions? is that a sign of strength? >> look, it is not about is he strong guy or not. it is not a cyber game. it is reality, you see? and if people like to put the world to the hell by such kind of sanctions, it's their choice, but it's the wrong choice. >> you're watching "on assignment" live from moscow. we'll be back after the break. stay with us. [ crickets chirping ] [ light music playing ] you've wished upon it all year, and now it's finally here. the mercedes-benz summer event is back, with incredible offers on the mercedes-benz you've always longed for. but hurry, these shooting st

without russia russia does not work with russia and sanctions cannot improve relations we spoke to former diplomats and a political analyst for their views it's not the most logical thing to say we want to improve relations therefore we are imposing sanctions next to listen to his statement was trying to be diplomatic and less from the impact and be less insulting to russia than the he might otherwise have been for that i think that's why you have a logical statement explaining these sanctions to which was not really any sensible justification at all we think about american foreign policy from like one nine hundred forty five forward it's tough to find many great examples of what we've accomplished so what the american force and foreign policy it's stablish meant expected what they're trying to do you know i think it's time for a total and complete overhaul of how we conduct our international business. journalist working with r.t. is arabic channel has been killed by islamic state in syria and i'll cut out was covering a syrian army operation in homs province when his convoy came under mo

the energy sector of russia's economy the bill penalizes any company that cooperates with russia's pipeline projects it's about sending a message to russia to hold mr putin accountable for his actions we will take tough action against russia the bill is targeting the construction of a key natural gas pipeline into europe citing what it calls detrimental impact on european energy security furthermore in the same paragraph the bill talks about exporting more of america's resources in order to create american jobs strengthen u.s. allies and strengthen u.s. foreign policy now that all agrees with a key component of u.s. energy strategy america's global dominance in energy policy. is not just a vital element of u.s. economic policy but it's also a volatile element of u.s. foreign policy and one of the most important actions we can take is to use our massive shale gas resources to begin shipping liquefied natural gas overseas so there you have it but what does selling gas to europe have to do with protecting the sanctity of america's voting machines the point is has got to do anything with the po

the aggressor when it comes to russia they have although all the nato troops on the border of russia they helped overthrow the ukrainian government with the with the help of the ngos they had to keep having missiles in the direction of russia and then of course you have the sanctions which are an act of war that self so how can the media keep or training as russia's aggressor when the evidence suggests the contrary just because russia cares about its border or they want to protect their sovereignty somehow there are literally hitler of the next over the next bogeyman that the united states needs to topple so are the propaganda coming from the coersion news now we're going to just it's both comical and frightening michael if you've worked in government at the high levels here let's talk about the american election being hacked whatever that really really means because i don't know i mean you were sitting with people in power that were well aware of how the united states in meddled in elections all around the world and that they wouldn't think twice about doing that would they but the